Showcase Sunday is a weekly meme hosted by Books, Biscuits and Tea. Its aim is to showcase your newest books and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders this week. If you’d like to join, click here.

Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang

The Walled City by Ryan Graudin

The 100 by Kass Morgan

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Brave New World by Adolous Huxley

The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

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I’ve been away almost three weeks now and I’m so happy that every time I returned home I found more books waiting for me! (My TBR pile groans). This week I received The 100 by Kass Morgan from Becca Jane over at Pretty Little Memoirs (Thanks Becca!) which I’ve actually already read and reviewed before (see review here), but this edition has the television cover so it’s cool nevertheless! I’d highly recommend it as both the television show and the book are awesome (though they don’t really follow the same story line). I also got an arc of Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley which I think is going to be a big hit in around a month when it is released. I haven’t started it yet but it looks like it’s going to be a good one!

I start work experience tomorrow at Penguin Random House which I’m so excited about! It will be really interesting to see what happens inside their offices and who knows, maybe I’ll be the one sending all your mail out for the next two weeks!

What did everyone else get this week? Has anyone read any of the above? Good/Bad?

After having read The 100 by Kass Morgan, I was so excited to hear that The CW already had a TV version of the story on the way. The plot of the book is really intricate with so many different characters doing different things at different times and yet somehow all the stories are interwoven and connected. That is one of the things I loved most about the book and I sincerely hope that the new television drama sticks to that as much as possible.

Title: The 100Author: Kass MorganGenre: Young Adult, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fiPublisher: Hodder & StoughtonPublication Date: 29th August 2013Goodreads Summary: In the future, humans live in city-like spaceships orbiting far above Earth’s toxic atmosphere. No one knows when, or even if, the long-abandoned planet will be habitable again. But faced with dwindling resources and a growing populace, government leaders know they must reclaim their homeland… before it’s too late.

Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents are being sent on a high-stakes mission to recolonize Earth. After a brutal crash landing, the teens arrive on a savagely beautiful planet they’ve only seen from space. Confronting the dangers of this rugged new world, they struggle to form a tentative community. But they’re haunted by their past and uncertain about the future. To survive, they must learn to trust – and even love – again.VIEW STORY »

Showcase Sunday is a weekly meme hosted by Books, Biscuits and Tea. Its aim is to showcase your newest books and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders this week. If you’d like to join, click here.

For review:

The 100 by Kass Morgan

Yay! I’ve finally gotten my hands on a copy of The 100 by Kass Morgan. I’m really looking forward to the television series of this book which is coming out later this year on The CW. I love the sorts of shows that are aired on The CW so I’m hoping that both the book and the television series live up to my expectations! Anyone else read this? What did yo think? Many thanks to Hodder & Stoughton for the review copy.

Bought:

World War Z by Max Brooks

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

You can’t read this book by Nick Cohen

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

I bought half of these from the Shakespeare and Company book store in Paris which was a-mazing (but seriously overpriced). When you buy a book from them they stamp your book with their very own Shakespeare and Company stamp which is oh so cool. I’ve finally got my own paperback of The Perks of Being a Wallflower! I just loved the cover of this one so I couldn’t resist getting a paperback. I’ve seen Where’d You Go Bernadette on so many other blogs but from reading the synopsis I don’t really see what the fuss is about. However, I do trust my fellow bloggers so I’m adding this to my TBR pile! I watched World War Z, a thoroughly awful movie, but I have been assured that the book is much, much better so I’ll give it a shot. You can’t read this book by Nick Cohen is a non-fiction book about whether we truly have the freedom of speech/thought etc on the Internet or whether the government is still censoring lots of things. The Teleportation Accident just has a really cool cover so I bought it, but I’ve also seen some pretty good reviews of it. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir is on my university reading list (but in French, of course), but I bought the English version anyways (slacking, I know).

Boulle’s Jewels by Francis Boulle

The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney

When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

I picked up these four books (and 16 other French books) at the charity this week and what a bargain! I bought 20 books for £11.50, though I’m pretty sure the checkout assistant made a mistake because I know these books are priced at £1 each minimum. I’m not complaining though! I’ve finally got my hands on Delirium by Lauren Oliver which many people are obsessed with. I also saw Boulle’s Jewels by Francis Boulle on the shelf and as a Made In Chelsea fan, I couldn’t resist. When God Was A Rabbit is something that people my age were reading several years ago but the cover is cute so I picked it up anyways. Then I saw a cool copy of The Burial at Thebes translated by Seamus Heaney, a poet who I studied in great detail at school so I thought hey, why not.

Gifted:

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

Notebook by Penguin Library

I volunteered at Penguin UK’s ‘Wreck This’ Event, in order to promote Kerri Smith’s Wreck This Journal, and so they gifted me two books from their Penguin English Library Collection! I’ve never heard of The Secret Agent before but I know Conrad’s work is highly regarded so I’m hoping that’ll be book. The notebook will added to the massive pile of stationery that I’ve accumulated this summer, but I’m sure it’ll all come in handy at University!

Giveaways:

What did everyone else get this week? Leave me the link to your showcase below!!